Life and marvelous adventures of Wild Bill, the scout .. . tion was a punishment aswell as a secure one, and he was kept there untilthoroughly sober and subjugated. This severe treatment caused Jack to take a pub-lic oath to kill Kingsbury, Whitney and Wild Billat the first opportunity, and every one who knewthe man felt that he would keep his word. The day of fate arrived in 1869, and under thefollowing circumstances : Wild Bill was in TommyDrums saloon, in company with a crowd of drink-ing characters, indulging, as was his wont, whenStrawhan entered by a side door. Bills eyes werealways on t
Life and marvelous adventures of Wild Bill, the scout .. . tion was a punishment aswell as a secure one, and he was kept there untilthoroughly sober and subjugated. This severe treatment caused Jack to take a pub-lic oath to kill Kingsbury, Whitney and Wild Billat the first opportunity, and every one who knewthe man felt that he would keep his word. The day of fate arrived in 1869, and under thefollowing circumstances : Wild Bill was in TommyDrums saloon, in company with a crowd of drink-ing characters, indulging, as was his wont, whenStrawhan entered by a side door. Bills eyes werealways on the lookout for danger, and they caughtJack the moment he stepped upon the made a pretence of not noticing his bitterenemy, but quietly grasped his pistol and kept talk-ing, unconcernedly, as before. Strawhan thought LIFE OF WILD BILL. 47 his opportunity had come, and that Bill was off hUguard, but the moment Strawhan attempted to levelhis pistol, Bill wheeled and shot him dead, the ball fromhis weapon entering Stravvhans right eye, felling. Death of Jack Strawhan. him without a groan. Bill then turned back to thecounter of the b^r, and asked everybody in the sa-loon to take a drink, never giving the slightest heedto the body of the man which lay on the floor dead,with his face smothered in a pool of blood. Every- V 48 LIFE OF WILD BILL, one drank. The coroner was sent for and the crowdgave their testimony. Bill was acquitted the sameday, and serenaded by the authorities at night. Whitney escaped death at Strawhans hands, butwas killed by a Texan named Ben Thompson, in BILL MULVEYS LAST ROW. Shortly after the event just related, Bill Mulvey,a notorious rough and desperado from St. Joseph,Mo., struck Hays City, and got on what we term inthe West, a great big tear. He paraded thestreets with a revolver in each hand, howling like anenraged tiger, and thirsting for some ones was met by the squire and constable, both ofwhom endeavored to make him keep the peac
Size: 1404px × 1780px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1880, booksubjectfrontierandpioneerli
